The engineering department of the Haifa Institute of Technology was formally named today after Prof. Walter C. Lowdermilk, American soil engineer and father of the Jordan Valley Authority Project.
The ceremony was held at the Technion campus on Mourt Carmel attended by Gen. Yaacov Dori. Technion president, and representatives of the Hebrew University and the Ministry of Agriculture. Prof. Lowdermilk was lauded as a “man of prophetic vision and pioneer of science and one of Israel’s greatest friends. “
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